The streets of London are awash with the urine of drunken revellers. Ever since raves were moved out of fields and into the clutches of clubs and corporations, the nighttime economy has become a mainstay of the high street. Gone a certain hour, a town centre is no longer a carnival of life – and instead becomes a museum of nightmares.

Here we are lucky enough to have an office in piss-soaked Shoreditch – one of the locations which is set to receive a lick of pee-repelling paint. The paint is made by US company UltraTech and turns an innocent wee on a wall into a potentially embarrassing situation.

Like splash-back on steroids, the urine will come straight back off the wall towards the offending member (of the public). The paint creates a near-invisible barrier which has been fooling people in San Francisco and is now being trialled in East London. The paint will be used at two popular watering holes – one in Shoreditch and one in Dalston.

Cabinet member Feryal Dermici stated: “If the prospect of a fine doesn’t put them off from weeing in the street, maybe the risk of getting covered in urine will.” To treat the two locations, the council will pay $1,500 (£1,000) which pales in significance to the $150,000 (£100,000) per year they pay to clean urine off walls.

In other nighttime economy news, this nightclub has installed a ‘puking toilet’ for partygoers who have had one too many.